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Ms. Linda A. Kuga Pikulin serves as the President of The Pepsi Bottling Group (Canada) ULC. Ms. Pikulin served as President of PepsiCo Beverages Canada at PepsiCo Canada ULC since 2010. Ms. Pikulin served as the President at PBG Canada since 1998. She has responsibility for PepsiCo Canada's bottling organization and its beverage portfolio of brands including Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, 7UP, Aquafina, Lipton, Tropicana and Gatorade. This position combines the experience of two ... go-to-market systems via the Bottlers and warehouse distribution. She joined Pepsi in 1982, and held a series of roles with increasing responsibilities in sales, marketing and operating positions in Pittsburgh, PA, Asbury Park, NJ and Austin, TX until 1988. In 1990, she was named Pepsi's Vice President of Operations in Florida. Two years later, she was appointed Pepsi's Vice President and General Manager in Western Florida. In 1993, she assumed the position of Director of National Selling and Delivery in Somers, NY. In 1994, she was appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager for Pepsi's Florida / Georgia Business Unit. Ms. Pikulin also served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Heartland Business Unit in Ohio from 1997 until being named to her PBG president role in 1998. In 2004, she founded the Dr. Donna J. Kuga Trustee Scholarship Program at Penn State University that helps students with financial needs. She serves as a Director of Enersource Corporation. She is actively involved in the Peel community and was the 2007 Chair for the United Way Campaign of Peel Region and is a Cabinet Member for their 2009 and 2010 Major Individual Giving Campaign. She serves as a Member of Catalyst Canada Advisory Board at Catalyst, Inc. Ms. Pikulin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh.

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